No Kevin Durant. No Kyrie Irving. No Spencer Dinwiddie. No win for Brooklyn on Monday.
The Nets tried to survive without their two superstars — who were resting on the second day of Brooklyn’s back-to-back — and their jack-of-all-trades No. 2 guard, who appears to be done for 2020-21 with a partially torn ACL, but the Memphis Grizzlies managed to outlast Caris LeVert and company at Barclays Center on Monday. Even after Ja Morant went down with an ankle injury and couldn’t return, the Nets were the ones who had to force overtime — where they ultimately lost to the Grizzlies, 116-111.
Here are three things we learned from Brooklyn’s second loss in as many days.